THIS is why Peter Forsberg doesn’t need the money if/when he comes back to the NHL

Just got some juicy information about Peter Forsberg and his apparently booming financial empire:

The info. is this: The money Foppa makes from playing hockey now is PEANUTS compared to what he’s raking in from the sales of Crocs in his native Sweden.

Last year, Forsberg – through his business interest of companies he calls ForsPro, a branch of which, Pforce, distibutes Crocs in Sweden – needed to sell about 38,000 pairs of the comfy plastic shoes to “break even” financially. And how many did he sell through just HALF the year?

Almost 700,000 pairs, apparently And guess how much Crocs sell for in Sweden? About $90 a pair. I don’t know Foppa’s total take on each sale, but it’s safe to say he’s making money in the multiple millions of dollars – or, in Sweden, the Krona – just from that alone.

Forsberg got in with the Colorado-based Crocs in the beginning, and wasn’t that a good financial decision for him.

So, it is now clearer than ever that any decision Forsberg makes on which NHL team to play for this year – if his body allows him to – will NOT be based on money.

That could mean great news for a team like Philadelphia, which has little room under the cap and has met with Forsberg over the summer about a possible return. I’ve heard that he really liked Philly as a place to live and his girlfriend still lives there. He liked the Flyers organization, but when they tanked so bad last season, the Flyers wanted to get something for him.

Now, he could go back and try to win a Cup for a Flyers team that is significantly better BECAUSE of that they got for Forsberg, from Nashville, and through free agency and other trades.

Or, he could go back to the Avs, because I know he still loves Denver and the Avs have a team arguably as promising as Philly. It should be interesting – and I hear he’s getting healthier by the day in Sweden, practicing daily with MoDo.

I even hear Foppa might buy into an airline near his hometown, with some of his loot.

Hey buddy, can you spare a Krona?

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Peter Forsberg may not NEED NHL money, but I seriously doubt he will play for minimum $ in Philadelphia. If he liked Philadelphia so much, why did he rebuff the Flyers offer last year to extend his contract? Peter Forsberg wants to play for top dollar in Colorado, period.

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Peter Forsberg may not NEED NHL money, but I seriously doubt he will play for minimum $ in Philadelphia. If he liked Philadelphia so much, why did he rebuff the Flyers offer last year to extend his contract? Peter Forsberg wants to play for top dollar in Colorado, period.

Jen

Adrian, check your sources! He calls them Forspro, not Pforce.

Jen

Adrian, check your sources! He calls them Forspro, not Pforce.

Jen

P.S. Pforce is only one part of that group and I think it’s the one that specifically does the Crocs part. But the larger group is Forspro.

Jen

P.S. Pforce is only one part of that group and I think it’s the one that specifically does the Crocs part. But the larger group is Forspro.

Money or no money, he obviously still has a passion for playing in the NHL, otherwise stories like these and the many other rumor pages out there, wouldn’t exist, he would’ve just come out and said, “nah, I’ll just stay here in Sweden.” However, if money is no thing to him, Colorado would be retarded not to sign him back to Denver.” Otherwise let’s look about who else has been interested:
1.Flyers–ew, but at least he’s on the east coast.
2. Senators–yeah, like they need more scoring.
3. Detroit–yes they have expressed interest, imagine how ugly he would look in that uni.
4. Dallas–even their GM and VP Brett Hull flew to Sweden to talk to him.
Those are the serious ones, and the Kings, Preds, and Ducks have all been teams that have been thrown out there. We need him to help us, not destroy us, even at 90%, he’s still an asset to have on the ice and the locker room, but if he somewhere else in the west, he will definately have an impact against the Avs, and it won’t be pretty, so just persue, persue, and persue, have Joey give him a call (it worked on Smyth), why not?

Casey

Money or no money, he obviously still has a passion for playing in the NHL, otherwise stories like these and the many other rumor pages out there, wouldn’t exist, he would’ve just come out and said, “nah, I’ll just stay here in Sweden.” However, if money is no thing to him, Colorado would be retarded not to sign him back to Denver.” Otherwise let’s look about who else has been interested:
1.Flyers–ew, but at least he’s on the east coast.
2. Senators–yeah, like they need more scoring.
3. Detroit–yes they have expressed interest, imagine how ugly he would look in that uni.
4. Dallas–even their GM and VP Brett Hull flew to Sweden to talk to him.
Those are the serious ones, and the Kings, Preds, and Ducks have all been teams that have been thrown out there. We need him to help us, not destroy us, even at 90%, he’s still an asset to have on the ice and the locker room, but if he somewhere else in the west, he will definately have an impact against the Avs, and it won’t be pretty, so just persue, persue, and persue, have Joey give him a call (it worked on Smyth), why not?

Avsfan

Yeah, we’ve been trying to tell you this for a while now. Peter said himself in a Swedish interview during the summer that he would work his salary around the team’s cap situation. And that he wouldn’t be playing for the money…

Avsfan

Yeah, we’ve been trying to tell you this for a while now. Peter said himself in a Swedish interview during the summer that he would work his salary around the team’s cap situation. And that he wouldn’t be playing for the money…

Peter Andersson

Forsberg will play three games for the Swedish National team in Karjala Cup nov 8th-11th. Manager Bengt-Ake Gustafsson announced it tonight…he might be ready for the NHL sooner than we thought.. :-)

Peter Andersson

Forsberg will play three games for the Swedish National team in Karjala Cup nov 8th-11th. Manager Bengt-Ake Gustafsson announced it tonight…he might be ready for the NHL sooner than we thought.. :-)

Hey, Im from philly and we I was at the game when forsberg was traded and the second we heard that it was offical, the first thing everyone said was, “He’ll be back!” I dont know what it was about the situation but everyone was feeling the same thing. He just seemed to fit in so well and if it weren’t for the front office messing up everything possible around him, we probably could have kept him!

Oh yeah, our GM and Pres have reportedly been pretty much living over in Sweden trying to get him back and from all reports, they are looking to be somewhat successful!

Robby

Hey, Im from philly and we I was at the game when forsberg was traded and the second we heard that it was offical, the first thing everyone said was, “He’ll be back!” I dont know what it was about the situation but everyone was feeling the same thing. He just seemed to fit in so well and if it weren’t for the front office messing up everything possible around him, we probably could have kept him!

Oh yeah, our GM and Pres have reportedly been pretty much living over in Sweden trying to get him back and from all reports, they are looking to be somewhat successful!

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.